Phone index and guide



'Dec.11,1923. 1,476,743

W. H. WALKER PHONE INDEX AND GUIDE s Filed Jan. 21. 1922 PERSONAL Patented Dec. 11, 1923.

urns! STATES WILLIAM R ALKER, or CHICAGO, ILLIiIoIs.

PHONE INDEX Ann GUIDE.

Application filedJenuary 21, 1922.. Serial No 530,809.

To all whom/it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. lV Lxnn,

a citizen of the United States, residin at Chicago, in the county of-Cook and S isate of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Phone Indexes and Guides, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to additional memorandum leaves for directories, and particularly to an alphabetical set of memoranduni leaves for insertion into telephone directories, which serve at the same time as a convenience for the users thereof and as an advertising medium. Further objects of my invention will appear from time to time in the course of the specification.

My invention is illustrated more or less diagrammatically in' the accompanying drawings, wherein my device, with parts broken away;

Figures 2 and 3 are plan views of modified formswith parts broken away;

Figure 4c is a section on the line 44 of Fig. 1 v

Figure 5 is a partial end view of Fig. 2;

Figure 6 is a section on the'line 6-6 of Fig. 2; 7

Figure 7 is a partial end view of'Fig.'3;

Figure 8 is a section on the lines 88 of Fig. 3. r I r Like parts are indicated by like symbols throughout the drawings and specifications. A is a memorandum page, the center A ofwhichis taken up with a convenient memorandum space-herein illustrated as a space for putting down names and tele phone numbers frequently used by the user of the directory. The surrounding space A is preferably covered with advertising material. The drawings illustrate only one memorandum page but such a page is preferably provided for each letter of the alphabet, to be inserted at the head of that letter in the directory. If the space for names and numbers is not sufficient, one or more slips or additional pages may be pasted thereover at top or side.

The alphabetical set of pages is preferably made and supplied complete for insertion in the directory, and it is desirable that the entire set be in some way fastened together and fastened to the book. 'This.

may he done in a variety of ways, and I have illustrated diagrammatically three figure 1 is a plan view of one page ofmain types, Figs. 1 and l illustrate pages alongthe 'rearedge of which is pasted-a tape or flap B, which engages either-side of the edge and inclosesawire B or any other :suitable reinforcement, running from end to end of the page. The tapes are shown with extending ends B which may, if desired, be 7 made sufiiciently long to be tied at the backof the directory, as at B or may be otherwise secured in any satisfactory way Figs. 2,5 and 6 illustrate-a form wherein the pages, reinforced by wire C as afore-' said, are provided with projecting wire ends, which engage any suitable top and bottom frame elements, for example the plates C In Fig. 6 thewire is.illustrated 3 as penetrating or riveted through the plate.

as at C but obviously any other form of attachmentzmightbe used. The. wires are spaced apart on these plates by approximately the thickness of that letter: of the alphabet. in the directory whiclrcomes ,between the two pages, thus permitting the wire and page for A to be inserted at the head of letter A, and the wire and page for B to be inserted at the letter B, with' all pages of the directory of letter A lying between them. The side elements and the cross wires form, in effect, a gridiron through which the pages of the directory pass. The entire assembly may be kept in place in the directory by any suitable. se-' curing means, such as the tapes C illustrated in Fig. 2 as tied together at the back of the directory. might be secured to the directory in many other ways, for example by wire clips.

In Figs. 3, 7 and 8 a form is shown wherein. the wiresterminate at each end in loops- I), through which pass pins DE] The loops and pin at the upper corner of the page are permanently joined and may be spaced in any suitable way, for example by sub-- stituting a cylinder 1) instead of a simple eyelet at the'end of each wire. The set of pages is then inserted into the directory by swinging them consecutively into place at the appropriate position and then threading tlie'pin through the eyelets or cylinders at the lower corner of the page. This pin may be fastened in place byany suitable means, and may have, for example, a headD a screw-threaded end I), and a nut l) secured thereto to complete the as sembly; The pagesv may be kept in place in the directory, for example, by the tapes Obviously the pages f Dflwhich join the pins at each end of the page assembly, but any other siii'table means, of course, might be used.

This set of pages forms an ideal advertising medium Which maybe inserted into any directory. The user of the directory writes at'the head of each letter of the alphabet his most frequent calls, andrtherefore is constantly referring to that page. About the edge of it i's'placed advertising madCeri-"al, which is thus" constantly beneath the eyes of theruserof the directory.

While lzha've illustrated. a Wonking device and'formsofreinforcingiand fastening-these pages into the book, it will be obvious that many changes might be made'inthe number size, shape,.-relat1-o'n and disposition of parts Without departing: from the spirit of my inventiong and particularly. I do not wish to ll'IIllUlTQ SGlfllO comprising: a 'wire and means for securing it to the page.

the 'pagee.

3'. An insertion for directories comprisa plurality of alphabeticttl memorandum pages, and means forsecuring them permanently toge'theras a unit, comprising reinforcing means along the inner edge, of each page and means for connecting said forclng means.

4=-.- An insertion for directories comprislng a plurality of alphabetical memorandum reinpages, and means for securing themperma- V nently together as unit, comprising 1'-elnforcing means along the inner edge of each page and means for connecting-said reinforcing. means at-the top andbottem of all V 5; An insertion "for di ectoriee comprising pages, and means for securing them to the directory, andz a reinforcing element along the inner edge of each pa e; 7 1

6." insertion for directories c01npris-- ing aplurahty 0t alphabetical memorandum -1ges means for securing them permanently V r they as e unit and for securing the unit 0 the directory, each page being provided with a form for setting down names and nu'mbersfrequently called and: beginning with the lctteivot' the index page upon which they are positioned.

Signed at Chicago connty of Cook, and day o January,

State of Illinois; thislSth 192-2. I 7

W ILLIAM WALK-ER.

7 6,0 a plurality of alphabetical memorandum j 

